Stimulation techniques are used to encourage production to flow from the reservoir rocks. Hydrocarbons are located in the spaces between pores of reservoir rock. Production is achieved when these pore ...

The practice of hydraulic fracturing has rightly received a lot of the credit for allowing the U.S. to boost its oil production in recent years by as much as 60%. The U.S. is now producing more oil ...

Insufficient distance between wellbores caused a vertical oil well to leak fluids after hydraulic fracturing of a nearby horizontal well last January in Red Deer County, Alta., an investigation by the ...

Whiting Petroleum Corp. plans to use 24-stages for hydraulically fracture its Ogden 11 TFH horizontal well, completed in the Three Forks reservoir in the Sanish field, Mountrail County, ND. HOUSTON, ...

A year after Texas oil and gas companies were required to start disclosing the mix of water and chemicals they use for hydraulic fracturing, it remains unclear what is being pumped underground because ...

It was some of the best-paying, most satisfying work I have ever done. I have seen my share of frac jobs. They are certainly noisy. My job was to be on 24-hour call and stand ready to drive a large ...

The last decade of oil and gas exploration in the United States has been characterized by a sharp increase in the amount of oil and gas acquired from low-permeability shale formations. These ...

WILLISTON, N.D. -- Monte Besler's job can be summed up in his license plate: FRACN8R. The Williston engineer who specializes in hydraulic fracturing once earned that nickname from a co-worker in the ...

Halliburton Company HAL announced the implementation of the first electric grid-powered fracturing operation of the energy industry for Cimarex Energy Co. XEC. Halliburton has been conducting the ...